Jeff Hirsch, Author at New York Social Diary

Ready to burst

Social Diary• April 4, 2019.

Beautiful early Spring day in New York yesterday, capping it off by attending “The Lehman Trilogy,” a play in three acts that you cannot look away... READ MORE

Philip Mitchell

House• March 22, 2019.

Sian, Lesley, and JH visit designer Philip Mitchell in his Upper East Side apartment, where with his husband Mark Naransky they have managed to balanc... READ MORE

Brian McCarthy

House• October 12, 2018.

Brian J. McCarthy is best known for the way in which every design he creates is highly personalized for each client. What they have in common is his e... READ MORE

Richard Mishaan

House• April 27, 2018.

As we said to designer Richard Mishaan at some point in our lengthy interview, “we thought we were going to be talking about if mid-century design i... READ MORE

Bennett Leifer

House• January 19, 2018.

Designer Bennett Leifer (pictured with his partner Benni Frowein) made the decision to major in both art history and business in college, not a combin... READ MORE

Priscilla Ulmann

House• January 12, 2018.

Priscilla Ulmann is a designer who is seasoned enough to know that she doesn’t need to cover all the bases — she’s not going to be doing an all-... READ MORE

Tom Britt

House• December 22, 2017.

We asked designer Tom Britt if, as he claims, a room can really make you feel “important, sexy and confident.” Of course he unhesitatingly said it... READ MORE

Michael Smith

House• December 1, 2017.

It wasn’t easy to get hold of Michael Smith (pictured above with his partner, James Costos)—not that he wasn’t willing to talk to us, just th... READ MORE

Ellie Cullman and Lee Cavanaugh

House• September 29, 2017.

It has been almost a decade since we last walked into Ellie Cullman’s gorgeous Park Avenue apartment but the bowls of candy and the abundance of flo... READ MORE

Elizabeth Roberts

House• April 28, 2017.

Although Architect Elizabeth Roberts works on a variety of projects including store and restaurant design, she has made something of a specialty out... READ MORE

Pamela Talese

House• April 7, 2017.

Though born and thoroughly brought up on the Upper East Side, artist Pamela Talese found her first significant subject matter on the other side of t... READ MORE

Wesley Moon

House• March 24, 2017.

Designer Wesley Moon has come a long way since his early days living in an unheated Mott Street tenement and tending bar to make ends meet while he ... READ MORE

John Rosselli

House• March 3, 2017.

There’s one thing that seems to generally hold true for antiques dealers and that is that they’re great at telling stories, or at least being inte... READ MORE

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